Improvement in the methods of making carriage-steps



FRANCIS B. MO -ESE. Improvement in the Methods of MakingCarriage-Steps.

Patented April 25,1871.

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FRANCIS B. MORSE, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO H. D. SMITH & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 114,025, dated April 25, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHODS OF MAKING CARRIAGE-STEPS.

The fichednle referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, FRAnois l3. MORSE, of Plantsville, in the county of Harttbrd and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Process for Forging Carriage-Steps; and 'I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents in Figure 1, a view of the blank alter the first opera-- tion;

Figure 2, the same after the second operation;

Figure 3, the pad complete; and in Figure 4, a side view of the step.

This invention relates to an improvement in forging the article of manufacture known to the trade as carriage-step pads, that is to say, the foot-piece with a portion of the shank attached, usually of the form substantially as seen in fig. 3.

In this condition the blanks are furnished to the trade, the carriage manufacturers welding a rod'to the shank of the length required for the brace.

The forging of the pad to the shank being a difiicult operation is made much more cheaply by manufacturers who have machinery for the purpose, and can produce the articles in larger numbers than carriagemakers, who, owing to the few pads required, would be compelled to forge them by hand.

Heretofore, in the manufacture of these pads the shank has been welded to the pads, as may be seen in the patent granted to me for carriage-step, dated March be produced; then, while still hot, the part A is held 4 firm and the'bar B turned or twisted at right angles to the-part A, as denoted in broken lines, fig. 2, and then immediately struck .by a hammer or suitable swages to draw the ears or projections ll down onto the part A, as denoted in fig. 2.

This blank is thcn heated to a welding or suitable heat, and the part. A placed in dies' corresponding to the pad 0, in figs. 3 and 4, with a recess upon the uuder side for the extension I) of the shank for the support of the pad, as seen in fig. 4., the shape of the pad being in accordance with the taste or demands of the trade.

Theblank is then'struck to till the dies and form the pad, which is done at one or two blows then the part Bat the same heat is drawn down to form the 'shank l").

The blank may be entirely cut from the, bar at the same time gashes a are out, as seen in lig. 1, and the blank handled by the tongs; or it may be cut from the bar at any subsequent stage; but I prefer to out the blank from the bar at the first operation, as describcd.

This process saves one or two beats from the 'process where the two parts are welded together, and the step, when completed, is better than the welded step, inasmuch as the shank and pad are one and the same piece, strengthened at their junction by the twisting of the bar and overlapping of the ears (I.

The angular cuts a, while they form the overlapping ears (1, also leave the metal for forming the extension of the shank in the best position for forcing it into the desired shape, the metal required for the formation of the pad proper being only that within.

the right angles denoted by the broken lines from a a-. I claim as my inventionl The herein-described process for forming carriagestep pads G with their shank D from one and the Same piece of metal.

F. B. MORSE.

Witnesses E. E. PADDQOK,

W. B. SMITH.. 

